We
are so well-connected yet people are lonely…From verse 11:
“do not merely desire peaceful relations with God, with your fellowmen, &
with yourself, but pursue, go after them!” You and I are to have peace with ourselves.
1. Philippians
4:4 reminds us to rejoice in the Lord: Philippians 4:4 in the
Amp. Bible 4 Rejoice in the Lord always [delight, gladden yourselves in Him];
again I say, Rejoice!
2. Happiness
is being in the blessed state given by God: Jeremiah 17:7-8 Blessed is the man
who trust in the LORD, and whose hope is the LORD. 8 For he shall be like a
tree planted by the waters, which spreads out its roots by the river, and will
not fear (see) when
heat comes; But its leaf will be green, and will not be anxious in the ear of
drought, nor will cease from yielding fruit.
3. Jeremiah 17:7-8 Amplified Bible 7 [Most] blessed is the man who believes in, trusts in, and relies on the Lord, and whose hope and confidence the Lord is. 8 For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters that spreads out its roots by the river; and it shall be green. It shall not be anxious and full of care in the year of drought, not shall it cease yielding fruit.
Isaiah 59:7-9 Amplified Bible 7 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction are in their paths and highways. 8 The way of peace they know not, and there is no justice or right in their goings. They have made them into crooked paths; whoever goes in them does not know peace. 9 Therefore are justice and right far from us, and righteousness and salvation do not overtake us. We expectantly wait for light, but [only] see darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity and gloom.
1. Mischief
, those evil deeds will keep God’s blessings from coming to us
2. Their
actions, those running to evil, prove out what they are speaking
3. In
verse 8…..Truth is opposed, and there is not any that pleads for it,…people
bent toward destruction with no peace…all their paths are crooked
4. The way
of peace is as little regarded as the way of truth; they know it not, that is,
they never study the things that make for peace, no care is taken to prevent or
punish the breaches of the peace and to accommodate matters in difference among
neighbors;
5. Being
strangers to quiet and peaceable, their lives dictate and affect that which
amounts to the blustering and turbulent.
6. In
their ambitious drives, whether for protesting or riots… usually some kind of hurt comes to others as to breaking up other people’s
businesses or livelihood, robbing from them and breaking out windows or
doorways, but can never do any real
service or kindness to themselves by them.
7. In
the walk of their life, they present sin
Proverbs 1:15-16 Amp. Bible 15 My son, do not walk in the
way with them; restrain your foot from their path; 16 For their feet run to
evil, and they make haste to shed blood.
1. Narrow
2346 means thlibo…… thlee-bo …to crowd with tribulation or trouble
2. So
the gate has obstacles
3. Saved
by grace through faith :Ephesians 2:8 Amplified Bible 8 For it is by free grace
(God’s unmerited favor) that you are saved (delivered from judgment and made partakers
of Christ’s. salvation ) through [your]faith. And this [salvation] is not of
yourselves [of your own doing, it came not through your own striving]. But it
is the gift of God.
Exercising Faith: we walk, we work throughout the process of
our growth within God’s purpose
1. Our
salvation is the finished work of Jesus Christ; If laziness is a part of us,
then that we cannot overcome that which Jesus overcame at the Cross. To take it
by faith, is we receive it in the spirit and confess and believe till it is
manifested in this moment of time of which we exist.
2. In
respect to being the lazy person, and not overcoming in our faith walk, though
still in God’s kingdom, yet we will fail
to reap the rewards of God’s promises to over-comers!
3. Revelations
12:10-11 NKJV 10 Then I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, “Now salvation,
and strength and the kingdom of our God, and the power of His Christ have come,
for the accuser of our brethren, who accused them before or God day and night,
has been cast down. 11”And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by
the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death.
The Word of Their Testimony: Testimony against Sickness,
Testimony Against the label of “special education”, Against the label “Dyslexia”
God’s Word is to be held up against the sickness, the attack
against you!
God’s Word directs our steps into His goodness, His peace,
and we prosper!
God’s Word is peace to our hearts. We are to Rejoice and be glad……..not because of the bad report BUT BECAUSE Jesus gave His life to take the ugly thing from my life, that which was sin and death!
(Paul speaks of a group of believer’s the Thessalonians) Salvation and Thanksgiving: 1
Thessalonians 1: 2- 5; 8-9 Amplified Bible
We are ever giving thanks to God for all of you, continually mentioning
[you when engaged] in our prayers. 3 Recalling unceasingly before our God and
Father your work energized by faith and service motivated by love and
unwavering hope in the [return of] our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah) 4 [O]
brethren beloved by God, we recognize and know that he has selected (chosen
)you; 5 For our [preaching of the ] glad tidings (the Gospel) came to you not
only in word, but also in [its own inherent] power and in the Holy Spirit and
with great conviction and absolute certainty [on our part]. You know what kind
of men we proved [ourselves] to be among you for your good.
8 for not only has the Word concerning and from the Lord
resounded forth from you unmistakably in Macedonia and Achaia, but everywhere
the report has gone forth of your faith in God [ of your leaning of your whole
personality on Him in complete trust and confidence in His power, wisdom and
goodness]. So we [find that we] never need to tell people anything [further
about it].
9For they themselves volunteer testimony concerning us,
telling what an entrance we had among you, and how you turned to God from
[your] idols to serve a God Who is alive and true and genuine.
We are to Grow into what He is: Appear alive--Appear true--Appear
the genuine---Appearing in His glory and to His praise!
Romans 5:1 NKJV
Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our
Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through whom also we have access by faith into this grace
in which we stand and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
God’s grace defines for us His generosity and His love
toward us! The sinful man should not return, for we should know the goodness of
God and His favor for us. Knowing God is becoming to know who we are in Him and
through Him. Love should start in us 1st and forgiveness should
begin within us and our hearts. Not only forgiving those who have hurt us in some way, shape or form.
Someone has broken our hearts when they failed us, but knowing we too as the
individual are human and subject to error.
Our salvation is to
influence others. Salvation speaks of the things Christ Jesus obtained for us
at the Cross! In that salvation we have redemption. We are redeemed from the old man to live out new born again experience that is God, of life, truth and love!
These in 1 Thessalonians 1:8-9 had left behind that which
they were educated in of the false and obtained the true inheritance that comes
to those who walk after God, receive His instruction and continually seek to
look like Him and act like Him!
Unwavering in their love and their hope of Christ’s return,
they made the message known to others, declared their loyalty to their Lord God
and walked the walk of the one alive unto God! Colossians 2: 13 And you who
were dead in trespasses and in the un-circumcision of your flesh (your sensuality,
your sinful carnal nature), [God] brought
to life together with [Christ], having [freely] forgiven us all our
transgressions.
To be free of bondage, we must take the word, speak it out by
faith, pull it from the spirit and into the present moment and see it
manifested for all our days, then we are truly alive unto God and giving
others a view to heaven on earth….
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